Music Reviews
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Palm Rock Island
On their second full-length, the Philadelphia post-punk band equally embrace and rile against indie rock as a conservative movement.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Hookworms Microshift
The fiercely independent Yorkshire quintet emerges from its psychedelic haze to reveal heart and creativity in equal measure.
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Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus
Ezra Furman's queer outlaw saga proves to be a triumph of a road trip.
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EMA Outtakes from Exile
This collection of outtakes not only contains some great new songs, but brings new elements that highlight EMA's ongoing evolution as an artist.
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Field Music Open Here
Open Here, the Sunderland duo's sixth main release, is possibly their most purposeful in both message and scope. There’s a lot of joy to be had in their calm and sophisticated protest.
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Mimicking Birds Layers of Us
The Portland trio’s latest further expands upon their decorous prog-folk by taking a more urgent effort to claim responsibility for how we live. It’s an ambitious undertaking, but Lacy handles these theoretical concerns with his usual naturalistic style.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Wrong Creatures
Eight albums in, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club continue to provide a perfectly balanced amalgamation of rock history on Wrong Creatures. Their mission was always to coexist and not to form a common unity with their peers, after all, and they wear their influences with ease.
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U2 Songs of Experience
With the world in turmoil and personal crises shaking them to their core, U2 fights the darkness with some of their most uplifting and effortless songs in recent memory.
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Bjork Utopia
Utopia’s idyllic voyage eases Björk triumphantly out of Vulnicura’s thorny darkness, where endurance is a necessary attitude that is central to her patient story arc.
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Gun Outfit Out of Range
The Los Angeles-via-Olympia band is in many ways a maturation from 2015’s Dream All Over, an almost spiritual musical experience which chronicles their connectedness with simple and earthy pleasures.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews...
